Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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A knowledge of thyself will preserve thee from vanity.
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I follow a more easy, and, in my opinion, a wiser course, namely--to inveigh against the levity of the female sex, their fickleness, their double-dealing, their rotten promises, their broken faith, and, finally, their want of judgment in bestowing their affections.
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Abundance, even of good things, prevents them from being valued.
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The absent feel and fear every ill.
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Patience and shuffle the cards.
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Little said is soon amended.
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I would have nobody to control me; I would be absolute: and who but I? Now, he that is absolute can do what he likes; he that can do what he likes can take his pleasure; he that can take his pleasure can be content; and he that can be content has no more to desire. So the matter 's over; and come what will come, I am satisfied.
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Under a bad cloak there is often a good drinker.
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The wounds received in battle bestow honor, they do not take it away.
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When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
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When a man says, "Get out of my house! what would you have with my wife?" there is no answer to be made.
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It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.
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At this the duchess, laughing all the while, said: "Sancho Panza is right in all he has said, and will be right in all he shall say.
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Be temperate in your drinking, remembering that too much wine cannot keep either a secret or a promise.
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No man is more than another unless he does more than another.
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Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy.
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The pitcher goes so often to the fountain that if gets broken.
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She wanted, with her fickleness, to make my destruction constant; I want, by trying to destroy myself, to satisfy her desire.
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Can we ever have too much of a good thing?
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Poesy is a beauteous damsel, chaste, honourable, discreet, witty, retired, and who keeps herself within the limits of propriety. She is a friend of solitude; fountains entertain her, meadows console her, woods free her from ennui, flowers delight her; in short, she gives pleasure and instruction to all with whom she communicates.